Two boards, one curriculum document, materially different books
Balochistan and KP both publish class-10 Pakistan Studies under National Curriculum 2006. Balochistan's teaches the 1973 Constitution as a live rights instrument guaranteeing minority rights, teaches local government with reserved seats for women and minorities, and narrates Benazir Bhutto's two terms as Prime Minister in substantive political detail. KP's ends constitution-making earlier and names no woman in government.
Balochistan and KP publish class-10 Pakistan Studies under the same National Curriculum 2006, which makes this the study's one properly vintage-matched board comparison. Balochistan teaches the 1973 Constitution as a live instrument — it “guarantees the fundamental rights to all Pakistani citizens irrespective of their religion, ethnicity… also guarantees the rights of the minorities” (p. 11) — teaches local government with reserved seats for women and minorities, and narrates Benazir Bhutto across two terms as Prime Minister in substantive political detail, with feminine tokens actually exceeding masculine. KP's volume ends constitution-making earlier, names no woman in government, and sets zero evaluation verbs. Identical federal instructions; the provincial choices diverge sharply — which cuts against this study's other main finding that vintage dominates province.
“guarantees the fundamental rights to all Pakistani citizens irrespective of their religion, ethnicity etc. The constitution also guarantees the rights of the minorities”
Balochistan Pakistan Studies 10, NC 2006 edition — PDF p. 11
What the books say
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axis, printed as it stands. Pages marked PDF p. are counted from the first page of the scanned file, which is how most of this corpus was read; pages marked printed p. are the folio printed on the paper. The two differ by however many unnumbered cover leaves a volume carries, so the label matters when you go to check.
The strongest civics in the Balochistan set and among the strongest in the corpus. The 1973 Constitution is taught as a live instrument, not a historical episode: "guarantees the fundamental rights to all Pakistani citizens irrespective of their religion, ethnicity etc. The constitution also guarantees the rights of the minorities" (pakistan-studies-10-en · PAGE 11). Local government is taught with "reserved seats for women and minorities" (PAGE 20). A full chapter is titled Restoration of Democracy (1988-99), and the learning outcomes require pupils to "comprehend the causes of Military take-over of 12 October 1999" (PAGE 6).
The strongest gender result in the Balochistan corpus and one of the strongest in the study. Feminine tokens exceed masculine (ratio 1.31), and the referent is a woman exercising state power: Benazir Bhutto is narrated across two terms as Prime Minister with substantive political detail — "Ghulam Ishaq Khan invited Benazir Bhutto, being the leader of the majority party to form the government, which she accepted" (pakistan-studies-10-en · PAGE 14); her foreign policy, her dismissal, and "Contrary to her first tenure, the relations with India remained tense" are all treated as her decisions. Local government is taught with "reserved seats for women and minorities" (PAGE 20).
What was checked and not found
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Zero evaluation verbs and zero open-opinion prompts in the entire volume. Its learning outcomes are Explain, Discuss, Identify, Comprehend, Analyse (PAGE 7), and its assessment is date recall: "When was the nationalization of industries announced? A. 2th January 1972 B. 12th January 1972…" (PAGE 42). A4 = 3 rather than 5 because the content is politically frank: it narrates the 1970 election with "In East Pakistan the Awami League carried the day while Pakistan People's Party won in West Pakistan. Differences emerged between the two parties" (PAGE 8), and calls the 1973 document "a constitution based on federal and parliamentary principles" (PAGE 13).
Limits
This is the study's one properly vintage-matched board comparison. It cuts against the project's other major finding that vintage dominates province — on identical federal instructions, provincial choice still produced different books. Both results are real and they bound each other.
Boards and confidence
BalochistanKhyber Pakhtunkhwahigh confidence
Confidence reflects the evidence tier this rests on. High means native or
English-medium text verified by exact string match; medium means it depends partly on
Urdu-medium material read at theme grade, or on an absence. See the method.
Source
Balochistan Pakistan Studies 10, NC 2006 edition — PDF p. 11; Balochistan Pakistan Studies 10, NC 2006 edition — PDF p. 14; Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan Studies 10, 2022-23 edition — PDF p. 7
The Balochistan constitutional passage is at PDF p. 11.
Cite this finding
Textbook Evidence Project, “Two boards, one curriculum document, materially different books”. Evidence from 2 textbooks (Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa). Corpus version 210 records. Retrieved from https://textbookevidence.com/findings/same-curriculum-different-books/
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